Some things never change, despite the fact that Poland makes billions of dollars off Jewish and Israeli tourism and has shamelessly built quite an industry off the Holocaust it helped perpetrate. Yet another reason to add to why my Polish Holocaust survivor grandfather, Isaac, didn’t want us to ever spend a penny in Poland (and I never will).

As many readers know, I am of 100% Polish Jewish descent. Both sides of my family are from what was known as Galicia, a region consisting mostly of Poland, where many Jews–like some of my family–were poor farmers. But none of them ever identified as Poles. That’s because anti-Semitism in Poland was always rampant, and my grandparents and great-grandparents were never treated as fellow Poles . . . because they were Jewish. Most of both sides of my family were wiped out by the Nazis because they were happily turned in by their eager Jew-hating Polish neighbors. There’s a reason “Deutschfolk”–Poles of German descent–were so welcome and comfortable in Poland and helped usher in the Nazi era.

Yes, there were some good people–righteous gentiles–who risked their lives to try to save some members of my family and other Jews from the Nazis. But they were the rare ones. Most were all too happy to turn my family and others in, simply because they hated Jews. When my grandfather, Isaac, returned home, one day, to find the house empty after the Nazis hauled his parents and siblings to the death camps, he fled to neighbors who owed his parents money.

My great-grandfather was mayor of the town and owned a hardware store. He was generous and extended poor Polish farmer neighbors extensive credit on tools and other items. So, when my grandfather sought refuge, he chose one of the many to whom his father had been generous, and was hidden in their barn and grain silos. On his second night there, he was thirsty and when it was dark out, he went to the house to ask for water. Before he opened the door, he heard the neighbors who were hiding him say that the Nazis were giving out bottles of whiskey for each Jew turned in. They wanted the whiskey and planned to turn my grandfather in for a bottle. My grandfather fled and, fortunately, he ultimately survived the Holocaust and several concentration camp “stays.”

But now the Poles are repeating their old ways. A Polish court, yesterday, approved extraditing Uri Brodsky to Germany, just like my grandparents were “extradited” to Bergen Belsen (concentration camp), Germany. Brodsky is suspected of helping obtain a fake German passport used in the Abu Abed Dubai assassination. It’s interesting to note that while Germany willingly and happily released Hezbollah terrorist and murderer Mohammad Ali Hamadi(who torture-murdered Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem) to freedom (a story I broke on this site), they seek an Israeli who is wanted in connection with his passport, which may remotely be connected to the Abu Abed assassination. Yup, Germany frees terrorist mastermind murderers, and they seek Israelis who freed the world from one of them. Who needs the Munich Massacre, when you have 2010?

The bottom line, though, is that Poland–if it had a conscience–would not do to Uri Brodsky what it did to the Jews in the late ’30s and early ’40s and turn him in to the Germans. But, yet again, Poland shows us that it merits its Rodney Dangerfield “no respect” status. It has no guts as a country. Israel asked Poland not to extradite Brodsky, and Poland ignored Israel’s requests.

And while it’s immoral to turn over Israelis to a German kangaroo court for the “crime” of helping rid the world of a mass murderer, it’s also economically stupid. Like I said, Poland makes billions off of Jewish tourism and commerce from its faux-shtetl biz. It not only makes mucho direct Holocash from tours of Auschwitz and annual Jewish “March of the Living” events there, but it has reconstructed some of the storefronts of the Jewish towns it destroyed (because they were Jewish), to entice Israeli and other Jewish tourists to spend money on cafes, restaurants, and trinkets of a Jewish community that once was, but was totally destroyed with Polish cooperation.

Israel did the world a service by removing Abu Abed from this earth. That Poland would now participate in the absurd German and world outrage over this shows me the country is no different than it was decades ago when my grandfather’s life was the Polish exchange rate for a bottle of whiskey.

Any Jew–or Christian who is against Islamic terrorism–with any self-respect should say no to Polish tourism. Uri Brodsky saw where that takes you: right back to the same old Germany.

I won’t be saying Dzien dobry (Hello) or Jak sie masz (How do you do), anytime soon. And neither should you.

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Debbie, here is Polish hero that I want you to read up on – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler. There were thousands of Poles that risked their lives to save Polish jews. You have to stop spewing your bile about Poland, you are not factual.

ERLIN – Following a Polish court’s decision to extradite “Uri Brodsky” to Germany, media channels believe the Israeli citizen, suspected of working for the Mossad, will only be fined – even if he is found guilty.

At the base of this assessment is the fact that the Polish appeals court decided to extradite him only on charges of forgery, and not for espionage, as demanded by the Polish prosecution, in accordance with the international arrest warrant.

Der Spiegel’s website reported Thursday that the ruling binds German authorities to try him for that charge only, for which the punishment is only a fine. In addition, those suspected of forgery are usually not imprisoned during the trial. According to the report, “Brodsky”, thought to have worked in Germany under the name Alexander Werin, assisted Mossad agents in obtaining foreign citizenship in many European states including Switzerland, Austria and the Baltic countries.

You clame to be a conservative Jew. Your ranting and overwhelming hatred of Polish culture and history is clearly visible. Not only that, your biased viewpoint is thankfully not supported by historical fact.

You sound like a deadbeat angry liberal who doesnt care if facts get in the way of your narrow viewpoint.

Or should I stoop down to your level and begin to talk about Jews in high positions who commited atrocities on the Soviet side against Poles, innocent Germans and anyone else who didnt agree with their narrow minded viewpoint, sort of like yours.

Did I forget to ask a question? O.K how many of us are supporting German engineering by driving Mercedes, or BMW, or Jettas? Israel may not be able to put her foot down, however you can. This unfortunately includes some of my relatives and nephews (well they just lease), well why?
Expedience has always ruled, until its too late of course.
This is also why these findings are never mentioned even in local rags such as the Jewish News, that as usual is years behind the times, and where is the powerful lobby we are supposed to have? You know the one THEY say runs this country.

Its about time someone had the guts to risk a FATWA threat. Unlike the propaganda of WW11 which portrayed the Japanese as buctoothed four eyed shrimps who are easily defeated (surprise
GI’s they were not so easy). At least these cartoons humerously point to the lack of how seriousness Americans perceive this threat.
While both Europeons and Americans are worried about the ecomomy Muslim Hitlers are planning the anihilation of Israel, Europe and America through nuclear terror.
It will take a little longer for the dhimmi infidels Russia, and China to find out they are next.